This book provides a critical introduction to Chile’s constitutional system, covering its key elements. It provides: - an account of its historical origins; - the structure of the different branches of government; - the way the fundamental rights are recognised and guaranteed; - the recent judicialisation of politics experienced by the country. Furthermore, the volume addresses three crucial themes of Chile's constitutionalism that have received little scholarly attention. First, the early development of a constitutional state, toward the mid-19th century, in a region then plagued with state-formation problems, civil war, and authoritarian regimes. Second, the irruption of a military dictatorship that lasted 17 years (1973-1990) in a country that had achieved a decades-old constitutional democracy. And third, the persistent lack of legitimacy of the Constitution of 1980, after more than a quarter of a century during which it governed what was generally considered to be a successful transition to democracy, following the dictatorial regime of General Augusto Pinochet.

Book Information
ISBN 9781849465366
Author Javier Couso
Format Hardback
Page Count 204
Imprint Hart Publishing
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC